Following the firm’s bankruptcy, researchers hope that they will still be able to access the valuable data set even if it is sold to new owners. Once a darling of Silicon Valley, the consumer-genomics ...

Since the human genome was first sequenced in 2003, the world's scientific community has been racing to decipher this "book" written in an alphabet of four letters. The applications of these ...

Scientists only mapped the human genome 16 years ago, but today you can get a basic test of your genetic code from Walgreens.

For more than 40 years, the Golden State Killer haunted California. A serial rapist and murderer active in the 1970s and '80s, he eluded detectives for decades. By 2018, hope of identifying him was ...

People arrested while protesting ICE say federal agents took samples of their DNA. It's legal, but experts say the practice ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Changes to a DNA database will likely affect cold case investigations. The site Ancestry.com recently tightened restrictions for law enforcement, requiring a court order ...

Authorities trying to solve the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie say they might tap DNA genealogy databases, the same step that police took to unravel a decades-old series of murders in California and ...